A Canadian court has ruled that a 14-year-old child can start a gender transition hormone regimen despite their father’s objections, and has further decreed that “misgendering” or use of the child’s birth name will be considered “family violence.”

Sharron Davies, an English former Olympic swimming champion, says she agrees with Martina Navratilova that males shouldn’t compete in women’s sports. Lucy Clark, a trans-identified male football referee, says of these outspoken, female athletes: “I wouldn’t say they’re transphobic, but they need to be careful what they tweet.”

The UK’s first transgender hate crime trial, brought by the mother of a trans-identified child, Helen Islam, against male transsexual, Miranda Yardley, ended on the first day due to lack of evidence that any wrongdoing had occurred.

The World Bank says only six countries in the world give women equal work rights with men, and even so, that enforcement is uneven.

Gwak Ye-nam, a former “comfort woman” during WWII, has died at the age of 94. Japanese occupiers of her native Korea kidnapped and enslaved Ye-nam in a Japanese military brothel.